Life is full of pain and suffering. We are told that we shouldn’t suffer and that we should always be in a state of, if not bliss, at least contentedness. The Buddha knew better. His first truth of life is that life is suffering. It’s not just suffering, of course…

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” — Harper Lee Not living in the moment, with the moment, with the things at the moment, will hurt your ability to be intelligent and comprehend what is happening. I noticed this while…

It’s rather simple, it’s about the challenges and obstacles that you can overcome more than anything else. We have it all wrong. We believe that what makes us happy is not having to do anything other than playing video games and, I don’t know, going to museums and walking around. …

Living by choice and not by the forceful pull of life. An excellent Stoic analogy compares living as if one would be tied up to a wagon, that keeps on moving. …

Concentrate, just… concentrate. I recently watched a video featuring Jordan Peterson discussing the Egyptian god Horus, who was highly revered by the Egyptians. Horus is often represented by an eye, similar to the one found atop the pyramid on the US dollar bill. …

“Washing dishes is at the same time a means and an end. It is a means of cleaning and also a means of practicing mindfulness. Just as we need to keep our physical environment clean in order to avoid the spread of disease, we also need to keep our mental…

You will ever remain a slave as long as you do not disentangle your relationship with the externals (stuff that you cannot control). The only thing that you can really control is your choices. The externals are many, basically everything. Your health, your wealth, the health of the people you…

The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us. — Ward Farnsworth All right, it’s time to get to the Stoic basics, again, cause they are so easy, so painfully easy, forgotten. …

“And this is what we mean when we say the wise man is self-content; he is so in the sense that he can do without friends, not that he desires to do without them When I speak of his being ‘able’ to do this, what I am saying in fact…